One reason I won’t get a CDL, every little ticket counts against you. I work with a woman whose husband has a CDL. He was on a M/C trip to California and got a parking ticket. I mentioned since he is out of state, he can ignore the parking ticket but she mentioned that you can’t do that with a CDL.
I know under current interstate compacts, out of state parking tickets cannot be used to suspend your license at home and also cannot get your registration denied or suspended. But also what a lot of municipalities are doing is going after your credit.
California is really bad. They’d rather you died of heatstroke or froze to death overnight than let the truck idle with the heat or A/C on.
Been disabled for 10 years now. The hardest thing I have ever done was give up that CDL license this year but all of my endorsements cost me over 80 bucks and being on fixed income and no hope of ever driving a rig again it was a cost that I could not justify. I taught a CDL class for years. My son now runs the road here on the east coast running frozen food. No way in hell he can run legal and make money. He’s doing a bit better than 50K a year but gone from Sunday night to Friday night. Been trying to get him a local job where he is home every night but they dont pay enough.